Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing, not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status.
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About Audrey Hepburn
British actress and UNICEF humanitarian. (1929-1993)
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- Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering, because you can't take it all in at once.As quoted in Audrey Hepburn: A Bio-bibliography (1994) by David Hofstede
- Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.As quoted in Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures (2007)
- You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.As quoted in Audrey Hepburn (2002), p. 108
- I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.As quoted in How to Be Lovely (2005)
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- Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.Sun Tzu
- Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.Rumi
- If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?Rumi
- The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Love truth, but pardon error.Voltaire
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Bertrand Russell
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